hi my name is Kaeleigh and welcome to County money two counting coins in this
video you'll learn to count coins so that when you empty your piggy bank
you'll know how much money you have in all
before watching this video be sure you've understood the value of coins in
the video titled counting money 1 the value of money then come back to this
one you know that coins are small metal pieces of money you also know that in
the United States we have coins that represent one cent or one penny five
cents or a nickel ten cents or a dime and 25 cents or a quarter when they're
all mixed into a wallet it might seem tricky to know how much money you have
but I'll show you how to count your coins let's go
penny is equal one cent but there are many pennies here it's as easy to count
pennies as it is to count objects because there is a one to one value so
let's count them
one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve there are 12
pennies so we say there are twelve cent the correct way to represent money is
through the decimal system in video one we simply wrote twelve cents like this
anytime we are accounting adding subtracting multiplying or dividing
money we should write it as a decimal or in a dollar notation like this with the
one in the tens place and the two in the hundreds place and we drop the cent
symbol and add a dollar sign at the front of the decimal number
this symbol tells us we're talking about money we use a decimal system because
cent is a dollar divided into 100 parts remember that cent is Latin 400 since
there are no dollars or whole amounts we place a zero in the ones place and the
decimal point separates the dollars from the cents if you want to learn more
about decimals be sure to watch our videos next let's count nickels be
careful we can't count nickels as we'd count pennies because nickels are worth
five cents each this means we'll need to count by fives let's do it 5 10 15 20 25
30 35 we have 35 cents
but did you know that we can use a shortcut to count nickels
if you know how to multiply we can count the number of nickels you have in all
and multiply that by five since nickels are worth five cents since
we have seven nickels we can multiply that by five and we get thirty five
cents we're right just like nickels we need to count dimes differently from
pennies because dimes are worth ten cents each this time we'll count by tens
you got it let's count 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 we have 70 cents let's try the
shortcut by multiplying the number of Dimes 7 by the amount of a dime 10 this
gives us 70 cents yes
when adding quarters what do you think we'll need to count five if you said by
twenty five you're correct let's count these quarters 25 50 75 we
have 75 cents and using the shortcut if we have three quarters and multiply that
by the value 25 three times 25 equals 75 cents you can also come coins when
they're all mixed up like this
the easiest way to count coins is to place coins of the same value together
first so quarters with quarters dimes with dimes nickels with nickels and
pennies with pennies next begin counting with the coins of a greater value in
this case its quarters we have two quarters for a total of 50 cents for
dimes so that's 40 cents two nickels making that ten cents and three pennies
or three cents let's add all that up 50 plus 40 is ninety plus ten cents is 100
but we know a hundred cents is equal to one dollar so that's one dollar plus
three cents is a total of $1 and three cents now we place the dollar sign in
front of this amount and we're done you now know how to count all those coins
that you have in your piggy bank what will you do with all those coins will
you spend them or will you save them to buy something in the future no matter
what you do with your money you can test your skills by counting money on our fun
online games and quizzes and remember to always be clever cha ching